Judith is a contemporary artist based in Dorset. She began her art practice as a ceramicist but found that experimenting with paint, paper and canvas gave her greater freedom to explore and play with colour and images. Her paintings hover between observation and interpretation and reflect a deep passion for the landscape around her. Some of these paintings explore the erosion of the Dorset coastline as revealed by the red line which acts as a metaphor for this loss and disintegration. It also represents her feelings of anger and despair at the devastation of the natural world.
COMMISSION
2024 Commission for private client
EXHIBITIONS
2023 VII Artists group show 340 Kings Road London
2020 Open Call exhibition Livingstone Gallery St Ives : one of ten finalists selected for a group show.
2019 The Gallery Symondsbury Bridport: group shows
2018 The Gallery Symondsbury Bridport: group shows
2017 Town Mill Arts Lyme Regis group show
2017 Lemon Street Gallery Truro group show
2016 Devon Open Studios: group show
2014 Dorset Visual Arts Bridport Arts Centre group show
2014 Dorset Visual Arts Durlston Country Park Gallery group show
2014 Town Mill Arts Lyme Regis solo show
1980-1990 Judith's paintings and ceramics were shown in several London and UK galleries including in 1988 a UK touring exhibition 'The Circus Comes to Town' organised by the Northern Centre for Contemporary Arts. Venues included Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and Holbourne Museum, Bath. It also featured paintings, ceramics and sculptures by Chagall, Picasso, Klee and Henry Moore
BIO
1976-79 Ceramics Course: Harrow Art School. Here Judith developed her passion for colour and form to create 3D images in clay.
1979-84 Judith made and taught ceramics
1980 Awarded a Crafts Council Grant to develop her ceramics practice
1990-2012 Psychotherapy Practice
Judith's art practice has evolved in parallel with her psychotherapy practice and each has informed the other.
REVIEWS
'I am a big fan of Judith’s work. Her approach to painting is full of emotion, visceral imagery and energy. To me it is like a great guitar solo – it moves me from the inside – it makes me feel alive and leaves me with a sweet aftertaste. If you want a piece of art to disrupt indifference in your rooms, then she is the artist to contact!'
J.E.A
'I have followed Judith’s painting journey closely for many years and have witnessed the evolution of a style which is truly exciting and unique. For me her work invokes a deeply emotional response to the way she conveys the natural world through a combination of colour, form and movement. As a collector of her work I am privileged to own some wonderfully evocative paintings inspired by her visit to Kenya as well as more recent work about the Dorset landscape.'
Elizabeth Dutton
'So much of the work in 'The Circus Comes to Town, is full of humour. Judith Lakeman Fraser is among those who most delight in entertaining and bringing skill and technique under such control as to look effortless. Her work, like a night at the circus, can take you out of yourself, please and entertain.'
Rosemary Hill